Annabelle Santos Volgman, Latha S. Palaniappan, Neelum T. Aggarwal, Milan Gupta et al.
South Asians (from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) make up one quarter of the world's population and are one of the fastest-growing ethnic groups in the United States. Although native South Asians share genetic and cultural risk factors with South Asians abro...
Muhammad Chanchal Azad, Kristin Fraser, Nahid Rumana, Ahmad Faris Abdullah et al.
Medical students carry a large academic load which could potentially contribute to poor sleep quality above and beyond that already experienced by modern society. In this global literature review of the medical students' sleep experience, we find that poor sleep is not only common among medical stud...
Gregory A. Roth, Catherine O. Johnson, Kalkidan Hassen Abate, Foad Abd-Allah et al.
Importance: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in the United States, but regional variation within the United States is large. Comparable and consistent state-level measures of total CVD burden and risk factors have not been produced previously. Objective: To quantify and des...
Wei Bai, Pan Chen, Hong Cai, Qinge Zhang et al.
BACKGROUND: Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is the preclinical and transitional stage between healthy ageing and dementia that may be a potential 'target' for interventions designed to delay progression to dementia. In this systematic review and meta-analysis, we assessed the prevalence of MCI world...
Julia Hippisley–Cox, Carol Coupland, John Robson, Aziz Sheikh et al.
OBJECTIVE: To develop and validate a new diabetes risk algorithm (the QDScore) for estimating 10 year risk of acquiring diagnosed type 2 diabetes over a 10 year time period in an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse population. DESIGN: Prospective open cohort study using routinely collected data...
Nitai Chakraborty
Utilization of health services is a complex behavioral phenomenon. Empirical studies of preventive and curative services have often found that use of health services is related to the availability, quality and cost of services, as well as to social structure, health beliefs and personal characterist...
Masayuki Teramoto, Kanyin Liane Ong, Damian Santomauro, A Bhoomadevi et al.
BACKGROUND: For more than three decades, the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) has provided a framework to quantify health loss due to diseases, injuries, and associated risk factors. This paper presents GBD 2023 findings on disease and injury burden and risk-attribut...
Tonia Poteat, Andrea L. Wirtz, Anita Radix, Annick Bórquez et al.
Worldwide, transgender women who engage in sex work have a disproportionate risk for HIV compared with natal male and female sex workers. We reviewed recent epidemiological research on HIV in transgender women and show that transgender women sex workers (TSW) face unique structural, interpersonal, a...
Jee Hyun Rah, Nasima Akhter, Richard D. Semba, Saskia de Pee et al.
Background/objectives Dietary diversity is associated with overall quality and nutrient adequacy of the diet in low-income countries. We determined the association between dietary diversity and stunting among children aged 6-59 months in rural Bangladesh. Subjects/methods In total, 165 111 under-fiv...
Sarah Soyeon Oh, Kyoung‐A Kim, Minsu Kim, Jaeuk Oh et al.
BACKGROUND: Numerous instruments are designed to measure digital literacy among the general population. However, few studies have assessed the use and appropriateness of these measurements for older populations. OBJECTIVE: This systematic review aims to identify and critically appraise studies asses...
Marjan Walli-Attaei, Philip Joseph, Annika Rosengren, Clara K Chow et al.
BACKGROUND Some studies, mainly from high-income countries (HICs), report that women receive less care (investigations and treatments) for cardiovascular disease than do men and might have a higher risk of death. However, very few studies systematically report risk factors, use of primary or seconda...
Shamima Akter, Md Mizanur Rahman, Sarah Krull Abe, Papia Sultana
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence of diabetes and prediabetes in Bangladesh using national survey data and to identify risk factors. METHODS: Sociodemographic and anthropometric data and data on blood pressure and blood glucose levels were obtained for 7541 adults aged 35 years or more from the ...
Eugenio Proto, Climent Quintana‐Domeque
We use the UK Household Longitudinal Study and compare pre-COVID-19 pandemic (2017-2019) and during-COVID-19 pandemic data (April 2020) for the same group of individuals to assess and quantify changes in mental health as measured by changes in the GHQ-12 (General Health Questionnaire), among ethnic ...
S.M. Didar-Ul Islam, Md. Bodrud-Doza, Rafid Mahmud Khan, Md. Abidul Haque et al.
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has aggregated mental health sufferings throughout the entire world. Suicide completions are the extreme consequences of COVID-19 related psychological burdens, which was reported in many countries including Bangladesh. However, there are lack of study assessing COV...
Habtamu Mellie Bizuayehu, Kedir Y. Ahmed, Getiye Dejenu Kibret, Abel Fekadu Dadi et al.
Importance: Cancer prevention and care efforts have been challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic and armed conflicts, resulting in a decline in the global Human Development Index (HDI), particularly in low- and middle-income countries. These challenges and subsequent shifts in health care priorities und...